Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.

You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

American music culture is black culture.

I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.